Ultrasonic Inspection of Steam Generator Tubing by Cylindrical Guided Waves
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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In this paper we report on the experimental results demonstrating the potential of using cylindrical guided waves (CGW) for inspection of steam generator tubing (SGT). The CGW ultrasonic technique is intended to complement the present eddy current (EC) practice for in-service inspection as well as to provide an alternative tool for pre-service inspection. Below, we review the current NDE practice for SGT and the motivation of this study.